Incubation - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Dec 2010
News

Notes from the Trenches

incubation period. If you put a backup plan in place, I guarantee you will quickly fall back on it.” “Just do it,” said Clark. “There will always be a reason not to. And this is the single most risk-free time in your life.” Send us a note... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Dec 2019
News

Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

finance, product, policy, or legal, there is a way to tackle part of this big problem,” he says. Caroline Quazzo (MBA 2017), a founder within Exelorate Growth, the internal incubator of Exelon, the leading provider of zero-carbon energy... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

16 May 2017
Blog Post

Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering

the fall of 2016, and then incubated it this past spring through the Harvard Innovation Lab and Rock Accelerator programs. We're looking forward to supporting the next wave of digital medicine. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

operation and to understand the tradeoffs between customer service and labor utilization. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/618062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-104 Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

beverage business incubator when it opens later this year. Located right next to a public transportation stop, the new facility will spur economic activity in one of Chicago’s highest need neighborhoods, East Garfield Park on Chicago’s... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

process and convince companies to consider the human cloud? The Answers: Seems like a good mix of broad PR and market education, together with high-value customer selling, will be required. The incubators and startup competitions are... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

were invaluable in helping Taylor sharpen his vision for the mission. “Lynda encouraged the idea of taking a public company like AmREIT and building an incubator charity alongside it. She felt an entrepreneurial, charitable initiative... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

31 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water

Food used to be just sustenance, but now it's news. The president of the United States falls for McDonald's and KFC. In Portland, resentment is growing over white street vendors who sell ethnic foods. Ikea is starting a food incubator for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Food & Beverage

29 Aug 2018
Blog Post

From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship

is still very much alive, where different business ideas are harvested from the whole workforce, incubated and grown under the supervision of very senior executives. Then if successful, these young businesses can be split out into their... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Jun 2000
News

VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

advisors for systemic change" that imports the philosophy of true incubation and venture capital into the education sector. "This is just a seed fund," he said. "Twenty million dollars won't make a dent, but the entrepreneurs will." Doerr... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

DeBere, who worked previously in international development in Nairobi, Kenya, and consulting in his native London, incubated the idea for Afya Pamoja—which means “health together” in Swahili—at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

Eisenmann’s Startup Bootcamp, Rock Accelerator, and Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Incubation Program all teach entrepreneurial best practices. Despite good effort, finding a technical co-founder remains a challenge and can undermine a... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The HBS Fund

emergency personnel—potentially saving more than 10,000 lives annually. RapidSOS participated in the Harvard Innovation Labs’ Venture Incubation Program while co-founder Michael Martin (MBA 2015) was a student at HBS. The startup... View Details

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

regional governments' roles are the most significant in terms of creating the infrastructure to support entrepreneurship—university programs, tax incentives, incubator programs, educational programs, and the like. Q: Your travel group... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

developing her own startup, Pepperpot Tea Company, as a participant in the i-lab’s Venture Incubation Program. Han reached out to Endline again for guidance after launching Bean&Bean’s e-commerce site, and their Zoom mentoring... View Details

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

gets set up when people are feeling good that leads to more flexible, fluent, and original thinking, and there's actually a carryover, an incubation effect, to the next day. NB: How do the leaders, the managers, affect this? Amabile: The... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

16 Jan 2018
News

Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

sending nonprofit leaders from all over the world to HBS. In the last 16 years, HBSASNE has sent 33 local nonprofit leaders to the SPNM program, representing a wide range of social action, from addressing homelessness and improving community health systems to View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Feb 2016
News

Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

the Miami Culinary Institute. He sits on the board of Northeast Organic Farming Association in New Jersey, which incubates artisanal food production businesses. And he indulges the would-have-been academic in him by regularly attending... View Details